Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-13
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the Boston Journal
Florida spiders are said to capture
large numbers of snakes in their webs,
but boots still hold the lead there as =
popular Burlington Free
Press.
"A cow belonging to Walter Deacon.
Of Bridgetown. n. Y. gave birth re-
Gently to calf with four front feet and
a long, tapering nose, which hangs far
~ver the lower jaw.
Persian women are said to be good
housewives. They give personal
supervision and care to all the work
and supplies. no matter how many ser
wants they may employ.
"A little girl who had been given a
placard with ''take one' on it became
tired of carrying it around and hung it
on the umbrella stand in a dry-goods
store where she was shopping with her
mother.
"A woman. who had an irresistible
propensity to destroy, going into
room once while tea was being pre-
pared, could not resist the temptation
to sweep the contents of the table on to
the floor.
"A lady going ont TO the East Indies
was often heard to express a wish to
experience the sensation of drowning.
One morning, after gazing for some
time into the water, she did actually
jump overheard. Luckily for her, the
vessel was lying becalmed. and dozen
willing men jumped in to save her.
Down in Maine young man kissed
deacon's daughter. The deacon pros
ecuted him in court for it, and while
all hands were attending the trial his
sawmill took fire and burned down.
The young man was fined one dollar
and the deacon lost his sawmill. The
daughter says it served them both just
right. She is strictly impartial.
AN eminent writer says that cream
is an innocent, palatable, nutritious
luxury for everybody at all times. AS
an antidote for tendency to consump-
ton it acts like charm, and serves all
purposes intended TO be served by cod
liver oil with much greater certainty
and effect. Where sweet cream can be
had cod-liver oil is never needed.
Some German investigators have
calculated the relative liability of in
jury to the eye. finding that if all parts
of the body were equally exposed to
injury, wounds of the eye would bear
to wounds of other parts the proper
ton of one in about six hundred; as a
matter of fact, the proportion is about
thirty-six in one thousand.
Budget.
-''An orange grove in Florida" re-
marks the New York journal of Com
97lerce, ''is not worth a cent more than
an apple orchard in New England un-
til its owner has put into it years of
hard work, much money and much inn
patient waiting. The idea that for
tunes are to be made in Florida with
out sweat of the brow is fiction of the
land spectators.
-''Larrikins'' is the name by which
the roughs in Sydney. Australia, are
spoken of. The name is said to have
come from the reply of a policeman
who was asked by the court what there
was against the prisoner whom he had
arrested. Just larrikin about the
sthrates, yer honor" was the reply of
the officer. who was an Irishman.
From that time disorderly conduct was
| termed larriking, and the rough.was
called larrikin.
The chimera flower is one of the
most grotesque of its kind. When first
seen this flower resembles some. un-
couth insect with long, slender, hairy
| legs, creeping over the ground. being
/ so balanced upon its stem as to preserve
a continual motion with the points or
seeming legs just resting upon the sur
face. The coloring consists of black
and white blotches, apparently put on
with all unsteady hand without design.
producing a peculiar and striking eff
! feet.
"A work on the Paris Monte-de-Piete
tells of pawned umbrella which war
annually renewed for forty-seven
successive years. The director of the
State pawnbroking establishment at
Brussels has had in his keeping for
more than twenty years the diamonds
and other jewelry of a once famous
prima donna who has somehow fallen
into poverty. Every year the interest
is punctually paid, but the trinkets
have not once been taken out of pawn.
More than once large sums have been
lent by the Brussels Mont-de-Piete upon
the regatta of impecuniOus German
princes.
"A San Francisco jewelry store
keeper, who is known as the Diamond
King" edited the Philadelphians the
other day by promenading the corridor
of the Continental Hotel thus gorge
ously arrayed, according to the Times:
On his scarf shone a pigeon-blood
ruby, surrounded with diamonds. On
his left little finger sparkled "a large
solitaire blue diamond. From his watch
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